I want to add an NFS mount point to my desktop machine so that it can 'see' some files on a headless Raspberry Pi.
I have the basics working, I have installed NFS on the Pi and have exported the directory required. I can manually mount it on my Debian 13 desktop machine. However I'm not quite clear how to add the mount point to /etc/fstab so that it will normally always be mounted but won't hang the desktop system's boot if the Raspberry Pi is not running or the mount fails for some other reason. If I put 'nofail' as an option in the fstab entry will it stay failed or will it retry? Also would that cause a delay in boot if the mount isn't available? -- Chris Green ยท
